Things are only going to get worse. The Republic is dead. Insanity and perversions are celebrated. Decency and responsibility are denigrated. Barbarians are welcomed as they carry their weapons through the gates.

Serenade of all the guns in II Corps at midnight ushered the old year out and the new year in.

All the guns in II Corps? I'll bet that was a sight to behold.

(The unit realignments Dad mentions here are in preparation for the upcoming Anzio invasion. The 3rd Division joined the British 1st Infantry Division as the main initial landing force at Anzio, while the 45th was the main reinforcing unit in the consolidation phase.)

39The unit realignments Dad mentions here are in preparation for the upcoming Anzio invasion. The 3rd Division joined the British 1st Infantry Division as the main initial landing force at Anzio, while the 45th was the main reinforcing unit in the consolidation phase.

He has what it takes to win. Cruz comes close but not close enough.Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and Unimproved. at December 31, 2015 08:05 AM (WVsWDFrom your mouth to God's ears. I want TehDonald to stomp Scankles so hard that even Mondale would say, "damn, that's gotta hurt."

71If so, I think you may have him confused with someone else. Heb!, maybe. Or Shrillery.

Please. Jeb has a pack of consultants that couldn't generate a strategy, MO, or Civilization V game plan. Hillary has a modified two-pronged plan: Please don't notice that I am old and addled or a congenital liar or I will call you a woman-hater.

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Thinking about that 12 year old kid that was shot in Cleveland and I keep reading reports the kid was dressed in camouflage. Last year my kids played in a city basketball league (never again) and there were more than a few negligent parents that used to show up, some with their pants below their ass and all the attitude that goes with it. One kid, probably about 12 that used to show up to watch with his parents was always in camouflage and black and plenty of strutting around and loud, intimidating trash talk. That was no 12 y.o. child, it was a 12 y.o. thug in training. I imagine that Cleveland kid was along the same lines and it would not surprise me if they both meet the same fate.

What sort of parent lets kids dress like that and carry that type of attitude? And then be surprised when something bad happens? These are not innocent little kids or even mischievous boys being boys. I initially thought the cops were at fault here but thinking back on that kid from basketball it seems to be another case of "live like a thug, die like a thug".

Posted by: Hand of Count Petofi at December 31, 2015 08:23 AM (1BQGO)

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Enjoyed watching Rushmore (199 again. The plays the kid puts on are hilarious. Love Margaret Yang. Could you imagine any play involving a gun being allowed to be staged in any high school these days??

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 31, 2015 08:23 AM (iQIUe)

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How far fetched would it seem for EITHER party to attempt to crash the system in an attempt to hold onto power?

I'm no seer, but it's getting harder to deny that Trump isn't going to pull this off. His numbers have never waned, his crowds are yuuuge and if recent reports are to be believed, he's starting to siphon supporters from the #1 Dem stronghold, the AA community. IF that's really true, Hillary is in for some trouble. I'm uneasy with what a President Trump would actually do, but it's hard to deny he's not taking a bulldozer to this entire process, and I'm loving every minute of it.

That 12 y.o. kid was as big as a lot of adults, he was carrying a realistic looking pellet pistol in his waste band. He was ordered several times to "show us your hands. Instead he reached down and grabbed that pistol and pointed it at the cop was again ordered to drop. After that he was ventilated. The grand jury returned a "no-bill" on the cops.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at December 31, 2015 08:30 AM (t2KH5)

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80 "How far fetched would it seem for EITHER party to attempt to crash the system in an attempt to hold onto power?"

I would not be surprised at all, in fact I have concerns about Trump, what they might try if they feel they will loose the White House. If the polls show Trump leading comfortably outside the margin of cheating during the main election...

Posted by: E.T. at December 31, 2015 08:30 AM (yq4gk)

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As the nation prepares to ring in the New Year, President Barack Obama is preparing a colossal new executive action that could print-up work permits for a huge number of foreign white-collar graduates every year, above and beyond the levels set by Congress.

This executive action, which directly bypasses Congressional lawmakers, is likely to reverberate across the presidential race, as GOP voters look to choose a nominee they believe will most effectively roll back the Presidents still-expanding agenda. And it will certainly raise new security concerns as it covers categories of immigration utilized by migrants from the Middle East and nearby regions.

But to counter that the RINOs and SHILLs in Congress passed a budget giving that prick everything he wanted?

The GOP will ram through amnesty and a whole bunch of other crap once it becomes apparent Trump will win the nomination, they will lose the senate because that what they want anyways and Trump/Cruz will win the White House where they will be fought tooth and nail by Senate Democrats and House Republicans for four years.

Regardless I hear the GOP is furiously working on "criminal sentencing reform" so we have more criminal democrat voters on the street to look forward to just in time for elections.

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Regardless I hear the GOP is furiously working on "criminal sentencing reform" so we have more criminal democrat voters on the street to look forward to just in time for elections.
Posted by: Kreplach at December 31, 2015 08:31 AM (WVvzl)

CUE THE SHILL to defend this

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 31, 2015 08:31 AM (DUoqb)

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Things you don't hear much any more: Tax oil company "windfall" profits.

Bernie Sanders cultish followers are easily impressed. One of the things they are most proud of is his complete lack of private sector knowledge or experience. He is "pure" and untainted by ever having had a real job.

Posted by: Hand of Count Petofi at December 31, 2015 08:32 AM (1BQGO)

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Stayed up way too late watching Bucky Badger beat Rubber Condomns in the Holiday Bowl last night. Go Bucky

112That 12 y.o. kid was as big as a lot of adults, he was carrying a realistic looking pellet pistol in his waste band. He was ordered several times to "show us your hands. Instead he reached down and grabbed that pistol and pointed it at the cop was again ordered to drop. After that he was ventilated. The grand jury returned a "no-bill" on the cops.

I saw that the prosecutor was blaming the gun industry, saying that the manufacturer of toy guns need to make it clear that they are toys via design cues and all of that.

First, a pellet gun IS NOT A TOY.

Second, I'm more apt to blame parenting that let that kid out there playing with a pellet gun over the designers of the pellet gun.

Third, as you say Vic, if a policeman is pointing a gun at you and telling you to drop it, you really need to follow directions. The police aren't like your absentee father who doesn't give a damn what you do or don't do....

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"That sidebar article about the feral pigs makes me want to give my new crossbow a trip to Texas...."

I'd love to, but, haven't seen any in a while.

*sighs*

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 31, 2015 08:34 AM (nTB80)

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The new rules to aid foreign college-graduates are an extension of his earlier efforts to bypass popular laws against illegal immigration, said Miano, the co-author of a new book about the painful impact of the white-collar guest-worker programs, titled Sold Out.

This executive action could have been prevented, however, had the bipartisan 2016 omnibus funding included language proposed by Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions

In April, Sessions proposed language to reduce and cap the number of work-permits dubbed Employment Authorization Documents that could be distributed to foreign workers each year. Sessions recommendation was rejected by GOP and Democratic leaders in Congress, and so House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryans
December omnibus is enabling the presidents new executive action.

CUE THE SHILL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 31, 2015 08:34 AM (DUoqb)

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"Also a stabbing victim and two other shooting victims hospitalized, who may not make it."

354 is still looking like a long shot.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and Unimproved. at December 31, 2015 08:35 AM (WVsWD)

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112 Second, I'm more apt to blame parenting that let
that kid out there playing with a pellet gun over the designers of the
pellet gun.

Third, as you say Vic, if a policeman is pointing a gun at you and
telling you to drop it, you really need to follow directions. The
police aren't like your absentee father who doesn't give a damn what you
do or don't do....

Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at December 31, 2015 08:33 AM (eytER)

What "parenting". Most of those inner city yoots are a simple means for collecting welfare and food stamps. They are pumped out at taxpayer expense and as soon as they are weaned they are pushed out for the street to raise them.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at December 31, 2015 08:37 AM (t2KH5)

126Dave Barry's annual year in review column used this as very good running gag.

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Are y'all talking about Tamir Rice or was there another choir boy turning his life around?

Posted by: RWC-Team BOHICA at December 31, 2015 08:37 AM (fWAjv)

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The new rules to aid foreign college-graduates are an extension of his
earlier efforts to bypass popular laws against illegal immigration, said
Miano, the co-author of a new book about the painful impact of the
white-collar guest-worker programs, titled Sold Out.

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Why, that just doesn't make sense! Obama's #1 concern is for the American middle class. He told me so!

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Even if the GOP gets the White House, and both chambers, they won't do a damn thing to roll back the presidential excess they've allowed to go on. Then it will just be their turn, and Congress will continue to abandon its responsibilities to faceless, unaccountable bureaucrats and presidential fiat.

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116 This executive action could have been prevented,
however, had the bipartisan 2016 omnibus funding included language
proposed by Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions

In April, Sessions proposed language to reduce and cap the number of
work-permits dubbed Employment Authorization Documents that could be
distributed to foreign workers each year. Sessions recommendation was
rejected by GOP and Democratic leaders in Congress, and so House Speaker
Rep. Paul Ryans

December omnibus is enabling the presidents new executive action.

CUE THE SHILL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 31, 2015 08:34 AM (DUoqb)

If you read the article I linked to earlier you will see that what Obama is doing is ALREADY illegal. It would make no difference if they further reduced the number allowed because he is letting in more than the law allows now. The problem is that impeachment is off the table.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at December 31, 2015 08:40 AM (t2KH5)

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China is building its second aircraft carrier, this time entirely with domestic technology, its Defense Ministry said Thursday, in a leap in its naval development that is increasingly tipping the regional balance of power.

It IS real! Who knew? Seriously, AllenG, I had a year and a half like that (2014 into the first half of this year. Thought I was going under for the last time. I can relate. But God is good. Here I am, until He calls me home or comes down and gets me Himself. I hope that 2016 sets well with you.

150Despite his many, many years of sucking on the public teat, Crazy Uncle Bernie wants to be seen as an "outsider."

And that's what really pisses me off about that human howler monkey. I don't think he's ever so much as run a lemonade stand in his life, yet he thinks he's conversant enough to take charge of the US economy? Trump may have bankruptcies under his belt, but at least he's a businessman who knows about profit and loss and what it takes to make a payroll. Sanders has spent his entire life judging the depth of my pocket and jamming his sweaty, pustulent hand as deep in it as he can.

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Has anyone cataloged the number of people who committed suicide by selfie this year?

Seems to me there were quite a few.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and Unimproved. at December 31, 2015 08:49 AM (WVsWD)

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I saw a Bernie sign in a lawn on the way to my daughter's house last week. I examined the house to try to discern what kind of people might live there. All I know is that they had a broken down truck and a school bus parked in what might be called a driveway, had it been paved.

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As 2015 draws to an end, the Russian and Chinese Military's are on the ascent, Russia is on the Golan Heights, the iranians are shooting missiles 1000 yards from our Carriers in the Gulf and violating that "nuclear agreement" left and right.

Way to go Fredo

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 31, 2015 08:51 AM (DUoqb)

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147: "Wouldn't surprise me if some little circuit-breaker popped in his head and he showed up to a campaign event driving a psychedelic VW Microbus and wearing a dashiki."

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Dear people from work, a month from now is not a 'tight timeline' that requires getting an email out today.

Some people just need Pusser Stickin'.

Buford! Git in here!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2015 08:52 AM (5kNms)

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I don't think the GOP would have had to impeach Obama just publicly fight and oppose him, get in front of the cameras day in and day out, make the case to the American people, send him tough votes even if he vetoes them, put him on record, confront and fight him where and when you can. If they had done that he never would have gotten a second term and Donald Trump would certainly not be threatening to blow the whole thing up.

But the GOP is a scam, a CON, it's not a legitimate political party and this has rendered the political term "conservatism or conservative" practically and functionally meaningless.

Donald Trump's not conservative?

Do go on!

And Paul Ryan is conservative?

How Exactly?

And Mike Lee is Conservative?

He's the lead GOP Senator pushing "Criminal Justice Reform"

And Ted Cruz is conservative?

How exactly, I could bring up many of his disasterous votes and Pre-Trump positions but you get the point.

If you have a spare prayer, my mom is moving from NM to Texas today. Has to go a different way than planned due to closed or generally icky roads. That may be a good thing because she'll be on the interstates most of the way.

Not the best week for a long drive but better today than earlier in the week.

I bought it a couple of weeks ago although I confess I have yet to read it, although it is my resolution to do so.Posted by: grammie winger, sign of The Time at December 31, 2015 08:33 AM (dFi94)Same here, grammie. I'm hoping to get to it over the weekend.And since it's the last day of the year, I might as well shill: my book's The Director's Cut: A Theda Bara Mystery. Link in nic. And since my website master still hasn't put up a link, anyone wanting to read a couple of chapters of the sequel, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of, please shoot me an e-mail.

I would guess that many of these children are in homes with no father present, and a mother either on welfare or trying to make ends meet by working a full time job or two. Kids need dads. Kids needs moms who are actively present. There is a reason why progressives are anti-family.

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Whether they were taught and then rejected, or were never taught these values to begin with is a completely separate discussion of how they got to where they are, not a discussion of what they are.

And why IS NOT my concern. Protecting me and mine from them, is.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2015 08:54 AM (5kNms)

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Not the best week for a long drive but better today than earlier in the week.

Tarantino clearly had some leftover "Django" stuff(mostly racial animus/revenge) he thought was cinematic gold!!! but no plot so he stuffed it into-

an Agatha Christie-style Drawing Room Mystery like "Murder on the Orient Express" or "And Then There Were None".

or

He wanted to do an Agatha Christie-style Drawing Room Mystery Tarantino-style but good, solid mystery writing is haaaaaarrrrrd and so he stuffed it in lieu of plot with leftovers fallen from the "Django" table.

A Drawing Room Mystery would seem to be a good fit for Tarantino given his ability to write interesting/fun/humorous dialogue but....

Nope.

It's his worst dialogue since the first half of "Death Proof"....only stretched out for 3 hours.

The form of the Drawing Room Mystery remains, up to and including-

MILD SPOILER AHEAD

Samuel L Jackson channeling Miss "MuthaFucka" Marple for an explanation of the murders with all the suspect in the same room.

And seems to end the whole thing with a weird call for the dawn of a new age where all men of good will and character gather together...to serially abuse nasty-ass, mouthy, white bitches, I guess.

Perhaps Tarantino longs for the caliphate. I don't know.

MILD SPOILERS OVER

Anyway, the whole thing is a weird cobbled together Frankenstein of Blood and Boredom.

"The Hateful Eight" could easily easily have an hour to an one and a half cut out of it, and still get everything done in a much better manner.

You remember when M. Night Shyamalan was a thing-

until his movies became more about stuffing in MNS-tropes rather than telling a story?

Yeah, that. This movie is "The Happening" bad.

But, on the upside, the murders in "The Hateful Eight" aren't committed by trees.

See it on cable.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 31, 2015 08:57 AM (KUa85)

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155: "There is a generation of children being raised in our midst, who look upon other members of humanity as nothing but prey."

Civilization will make a comeback. After a number of years of bloodshed.

Behavior becomes a survival instinct at some point. Eventually our species learns over the course of a long time that survival eventually depends on how you act.

Unfortunately, our species also has a knack or forgetting this fact after several generations of excessive civilization. And so the cycle begins anew.

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>>>If there is a Wall Street "meltdown" next year -- and I agree the
likelihood is pretty strong -- it will be hard to tell if it is
triggered by GOPe-loving manipulation or plain ol' reality.

For
years, stocks have been propped up by bogus claimed and nonexistent
money, IMO. There's a huge bubble there, just waiting to burst.

And when it does, it will not be pretty.....The Fed injected ~ $3 Trillion into the Market with Quantitative Easing and they have to pull that money out sometime. Yellen admitted it was going to start soon.

Posted by: The Great White Soctsman at December 31, 2015 08:57 AM (iONHu)

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I don't see why there'd be much hope for 2016 being all that great a year: TFG is going to have his back to the wall trying to get the last of his bullshit done. "Our" side isn't doing shit. SJW's may be more likely to be mocked, but they will still be able to get you fired just as quickly.

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Morning. I don't know why, but the story about DOJ declining prosecution of the two VA executives has bugged me more than the countless other stories of corruption in this administration. I think it's the fact that the VA actually did the right thing by referring the matter to DOJ, and then DOJ is like nahhhhh, nothing to see here.

And only enough, both days that I was at the range, there were lines of people filling out the standard paperwork which is produced when asked "So, have you ever shot here before", and you say "Nope, first time".

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I won 10 bucks! Every morn I go get my bagel and scoop up discarded scratchers and enter them online for a second drawing. Not sure it is worth the effort since all of the big prizes have been phased out. But occasionally I find winning tickets that the buyer missed. So, lucky me! Now an optimist wd see this as a good omen. Me, I see that as a sign of something bad is going to offset my good luck.

I remember a panel cartoon from years ago - except I can't remember the artist - which took place in a lonely diner somewhere in Texas. A trucker stops in for coffee and the waitress asks him if he wants milk with it. When he says 'yes,' she pulls out a huge breast and squirts into his cup. . .with the result that everyone in the place wants coffee.

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And only enough, both days that I was at the range, there were lines of people filling out the standard paperwork which is produced when asked "So, have you ever shot here before", and you say "Nope, first time".

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Most hilarious, sad, bizarre, insane... is hearing/reading Sander cultists talk about how cool and hip Uncle Bernie is. The doddering old fool is a lot more like a dour members of the Soviet Politburo than some rock star. There is some serious mass delusion going around in this country.

Posted by: Hand of Count Petofi at December 31, 2015 09:05 AM (1BQGO)

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>>Hi HR. You're closer to 2016 than we are. Can you peek over the divide and tell us if it looks any better from what you can see?

LOL.

Ya know, it would be rude of us not to drink with HR when it's New Year's for her...

HR, Was ist deine Time Zone? Plus sieben from Central US?

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 31, 2015 09:05 AM (nXeSu)

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Bernie's getting the Ruth Bader Ginsburg treatment right now. It will pass.

Are those the "coke-fueled sex on government property during working hours" people? I suspect it hits hard because if "coke-fueled sex on government property during working hours" *isn't* enough for the DoJ to take notice of, they've essentially admitted there are *no* limits on bureaucratic behavior anymore.

They are the ubermensch and we exist to pay their salaries and give them someone to push around.

Ok...I googled and I got a place where I can buy mugs. I don't think I ever saw that movie, although now that I'm thinking about it, didn't someone link a version with the rock?

Posted by: Lea at December 31, 2015 09:07 AM (lIU4e)

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>>I'm sorry to hear that Mama AJ. I hope she has a smooth trip with no incidents, and that she'll be happy in her new home.

Thank you!

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 31, 2015 09:07 AM (nXeSu)

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I'm completely out of "everyday" beer and bourbon; that's a bad situation to be in leading up to a three-day drinkend.

Posted by: Chupacabra at December 31, 2015 09:07 AM (kZVsz)

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Most hilarious, sad, bizarre, insane... is hearing/reading Sander cultists talk about how cool and hip Uncle Bernie is. The doddering old fool is a lot more like a dour members of the Soviet Politburo than some rock star. There is some serious mass delusion going around in this country.

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There is a generation of children being raised in our midst, who look upon other members of humanity as nothing but prey.

They have no respect for laws, property, humanity, nor any other code of civil behavior which allows large numbers of people to live in relative peace inclose proximity to each other.

=====

From a "street" perspective, I once spoke at length with a career criminal in jail about that. His opinion, FWIW, was that many are crack babies, grown up with little impulse control and typically using drugs of their own choice. He thought of them as the most violent and that it was the responsibility of the.... erm, street community? to 'take them out' for simple self-protection since the police wouldn't do it.

Posted by: Bigby's Fingerpaints at December 31, 2015 09:09 AM (3ZtZW)

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I think I remember that strip, MPPPP; probably the guy that used to do all the Playboy cartoons.

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Are those the "coke-fueled sex on government property during working hours" people? I suspect it hits hard because if "coke-fueled sex on government property during working hours" *isn't* enough for the DoJ to take notice of, they've essentially admitted there are *no* limits on bureaucratic behavior anymore.

They are the ubermensch and we exist to pay their salaries and give them someone to push around.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 31, 2015 09:06 AM (GDulk)

Don't think so. But yes, we exist to pay these scrunts their salaries because I bet they won't be fired.

We are having a cheese fondue for supper and if it's not raining we might climb up the hill to the cathedral to watch fireworks (which probably entails putting on pants...for all people keep telling me Germany is "less prudish" than the US they still seem to expect me to wear pants when I leave the house).

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The fridge is full of 10% beers, and the bourbon's are all my expensive Pappy's and Stagg's.

Either way, not able to session a long day with either of those.

Posted by: Chupacabra at December 31, 2015 09:19 AM (kZVsz)

227Ok, Muldoon, I'll believe rodents can learn to fly a glider, if you can run along side the glider and dangle a carrot.

'Fes up Did you really, as a kid, put a rodent in a glider and toss it off the barn roof? 'Cuz I have cousins who were farm boys and they would do such a thing.

Posted by: Pierrick Vandleweis at December 31, 2015 08:56 AM (e0JZ3)

Heh. On Saturday nights, we'd get drunk in the barracks and have Hamster Airborne School with 'chutes from illumination flares we'd find in the training areas, a bit of 100 MPH tape and the third floor window.

What I found fascinating is that he knew, on a level we could not, what the background of many of these violent offenders were. And make no mistake, he himself was a violent felon who, were we on the street, would have assaulted or robbed me at the drop of a hat. And he hated *them* more, thought they were a blight on the community.

Posted by: Bigby's Fingerpaints at December 31, 2015 09:21 AM (3ZtZW)

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Not even celebrating tonight. 2015 sucked and 2016 looks like the same or worse.

Posted by: Chicken Lives Matter at December 31, 2015 09:21 AM (Y8P5w)

233The fridge is full of 10% beers, and the bourbon's are all my expensive Pappy's and Stagg's.
Posted by: Chupacabra at December 31, 2015 09:19 AM (kZVsz)

I mean...it IS NYE. Go for it.

My uncle has a place in texas, and he told me proudly one day about how a couple of my cousins went there to hunt, found a feral hog, killed it, broke it down (or whatever) and took it with them.

I was never really big on celebrating on NYE-mainly because to go out costs too much money and I'm not a big drinker. Many of the churches I have served have a pot luck dinner followed by a worship service and it's also over by about 8;30 or so. It's very nice. This church is not having that. This year I am going to an 11:00 prayer and holy communion service at another church followed by (non alcoholic) refreshments which seems a good way to end the year.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 31, 2015 09:31 AM (M+RRn)

249MPPPP, wouldst thou be so kind as to add an http to the URL in thy nic so that it might work easily?

2016 will be the last year for the thin veneer of sanity and civility in our country. The effects of mass delusion and irresponsibility will not be able to be contained after that. If Hillary wins it will happen with her encouragement. If by some chance a Republican wins they will not be able to contain it if they even bother to try. In fact, any serious attempts to correct the many grave problems will just provoke the left's insanity. 2017 will be the beginning of the "interesting times"

Posted by: Hand of Count Petofi at December 31, 2015 09:33 AM (1BQGO)

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naturalfake beat me to it, but that's the classic recipe for the Painkiller as originally concocted at the Soggy Dollar Bar on the island of Jost Van Dyke.

Thanks to a fine British gentleman who goes by the handle AdOrAdam on Tiki Central, here's a variation that's great for people like me who aren't that fond of pineapple juice.

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Chickens don't give milk or cream, so this chicken creamer is cultural
appropriation. You chicken creamer makers must be sued into submission,
and any posters of such insensitive content fined and banished.

On the other hand, if a rooster identifies as a female cow, who are you haters to say he can't give milk?

I get an email from the Trump campaign about twice a week. It just tells me where the rallies will be or if there's a new position paper out. It does not beg me for money, but does tell me I can buy a Make America Great ball cap. It's a refreshing change. I did get one email asking people to volunteer for the campaign.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 31, 2015 09:38 AM (Lqy/e)

260That's why people in Gotti's neighborhood and his area of control 'liked' him. Unauthorized street crime was dealt with.

I can imagine the poor neighbor who accidentally ran over Gotti's son when the little bastard ran out in traffic didn't end up liking him. Rumor has it Gotti took a blowtorch to the guy.

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"When [Hillary] plays the woman card, she opens herself up to attack" Which Democrat Party voters couldn't care less about. It's about the will to power. Progressives would vote Stalin for President if he was on the ticket; they don't care.

You also have to worry about GOPe idiots like Will and JPod, who would rather vote Hillary than Trump in 2016.

Pretty much I think that those we thought might be conservative or conservative light like Gowdy will line up with the Rubio/Ryan gang. Paul Ryan intends to run for President after this election and he is lining up his team.

The new GOPe will be like the old GOPe, only younger. Nothing changes and mostly the support for Obama's agenda in the Omnibus will continue.

Good people like Sessions who apparently reads or is informed about legislation and cares about the constitution, the rule of law and the country and want to prevent this insane invasion by illegals, guest workers, visa seekers of all stripes, will stand virtually alone. I don't know where Cruz will end up.

The Speakers blog is a bunch of Ryan vanity postings. I hope Trump does to Rubio/Ryan what he's been doing to all the opposition. If he gets the chance. 2 cents.

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""When [Hillary] plays the woman card, she opens herself up to attack"
Which Democrat Party voters couldn't care less about. It's about the
will to power."

yeah, but it will play with the non progressive. The hard core left are a lost cause. And some that don't usually vote may be angry enough about Hillary the "protector of rapist", that they go out and vote Trump.

And there are the union states that like the America First chant better than the globalist vision of outsourcing all production, or importing cheap labor. They are blue collar and if on the fence, this issue helps.

And even some progressives imo, see the problems with the open borders crowd. But it is never about winning the hard core from the other side. The left has been winning by being especially vile/bold toward traditional America ... racists, bigots, sexist, etc. They embrace hate of the core on the other side.

Posted by: Illiniwek at December 31, 2015 09:54 AM (5Gpe2)

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Not really a drinker, but I have to commend Troeg's Mad Elf Ale from Hershey, PA. 11% alcohol by volume. Seasonal, and probably sold out, but if you see it, try it.

"The holidays at Troegs start with our inner Mad Elf momentarily taking over the brew deck. So blame him for this cheerful ruby red creation reminiscent of ripened cherries, raw honey and cocoa with notes of cinnamon, clove and allspice."

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I found the Hateful 8 to be good. Every performance was good, and the 70mm roadshow with an overture and intermission is charming. The dialogue is good too. I saw it in a packed theater and chatted with strangers about movies beforehand.

Downside is using these huge cameras to tell a story that could be a play. I can't imagine that this project was conceived as a single set piece.

Federal officials today announced arrests and charges in a stolen identity tax-refund scheme believed to involve more than $1 million in false claims and run by an IRS employee who was supposed to be assisting taxpayers experiencing problems resulting from identity theft.